Button



Dec. 16, 1924.

L. S. COONEY BUTTON Filed Aug. 2. 1925 Tllqi- INVENTOR A. 5'. Com/5x A TTORNE Y f atented Dec. 16, 1924,

LAURA S. COONEY, OF BROOKLYN, NET/V YORK.

BUTTON.

Application filed August 2, 1923.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAURA S. CooNnY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to button structures generally, and more particularly to a quick attachable or permanently aiiixed type thereof.

The primary object of the invention is to provide for a button of the class set forth, and one of a design capable of being easlly and quickly applied for use, and which will be neat and attractive in appearance.

Another and equally important object of the invention is to provide for a button structure as hereinbefore characterized, and one of an extremely durable nature and arrangementof parts and embodying a loose shank connection adapted to secure the but- 1011 rigidly in position on the material to which it is to be attached, but, at the same time, will allow free movement to head portion of the button for its easy engagement with a button-hole of the material to be connected to or supported from the same, and for its adapting itself to strains and stresses, to which it may be subjected when in use, without transmitting the entire effects of such strains and stresses to the point of fastening of the securing shank.

A further object of the invention is to provide for a button of the type mentioned, and one designed to be readily and quickly applied to materials of varying thicknesses with equal facility and without in any way restricting the freedom of movement of the head portion thereof for its engagement with or disengagement from a button-hole in the material to be connected thereby or disconnected therefrom.

With the foregoing and other equally important objects in view, such as will be hereinafter readily apparent, the invention resides in the certain novel and useful con struction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, set forth in the appended claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved button as it appears when applied for use,

Serial No. 655,277.

Figure 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig ure 1, and

Figure 8 is a rear elevation thereof.

The improved button, in the preferred form as shown in the drawing, comprises a lower or rear base portion 10 having a boss or nipple 11 projecting concentrically of its upper or forward face, and a bore 12 passed centrally through portion 10 and the boss or nipple 11. The boss or nipple 11 is preferably of frustro-conical form to facilitate its passage forwardly through the material to which the button is to be attached, and to wedgedly seat in the conical bore 13 passing centrally through an upper clamping member or portion 14, and similarly through a boss or nipple 15 projecting concentrically of the upper or forward face of the latter. This member or portion 14; is

preferably of the same diameter as the base under or rear side of a piece of material a,

and its boss or nipple 11 passed through the latter, the front clamping member or portion 14: is to be applied to the upper or outer side of the material with its conical bore 13 engaged over the conical boss or nipple 11 of the base portion 10, when the two parts 10 and 1d will then be secured together in clamping relation on the material a by the passage through the aligned bores 12 and 13 of a shank member now to be described. This shank member is preferably formed of a single length of wire bent to provide a loop or eye portion 16 and straight parallel leg portions 17 and 17, the latter to be assed through the aligned bores 12 and 13, of the button parts 10 and 14-, and until the loop or eye 16 abuts the outer end of the boss or nipple 15, of the part 1%, when the free end portions of the leg portions 17 and 17" will be angularly bent in opposite directions to seat in radial grooves 18 and 18 formed in the lower or rear face of the base or part 10, substantially as shown in Figure Prior to the insertion of the leg portions 17 and 17, of the shank member, through the bores 12 and 1?, the loop or eye 16 thereof is engaged with the eye 19, of the shank portion 20 of a button head 21, whereby the latter will be loosely supported in position. This head or button proper 21 is preferably or forward [ill made from a suitable sheet metal and of concavo-con'vexed form, and has its edge spun or turned slightly inward of the concavity at its rear or lower side, as at 22, whereby to conceal the said edge from contact with the material to be engaged by the head and. to otherwise present a smooth exterior and finish thereto.

\Vith the button as thus constructed and arranged, it will be noted that the parts ,10 and 14: may be readily applied to the rear and front faces respectively of sheets of material of varying thicknesseswith equal fa cility, and that theloop or eye 16, of the securing shank, will be tightly abutted against the freeend of the boss or nipple 15, of the front part 1a, when the free ends of the leg portions 17 and 17, of the shank, are bent into engagement with the radial grooves 18 and 18', in the rear face of the base part 10, all in amanner that the parts 10 and 14, together with the shank, are rigidly 'maintainediin position, while the button proper or head Qlwill have sufficient play to admitof its being readily engaged through a button-hole in a separate or adjacent piece of material to be connected to the material a on which the button, in its entirety, is mounted.

In practice, the leg portions 17 and 17, of the securing shank, will be made extra long so as to be effective for fastening the parts 10 and 14 in position on varying thicknesses ofmateria-l, and, in the event of the same hazing-of too great a length to have their bent endsto lie entirely within the radial grooves 18 and 18, the surplus portions of the same may be readily severed to desired or proper length for the purpose. I

lVhile a preferred embodiment of the button has been described and illustrated herein in specific terms and details ofconstruction and arrangement of parts, it will be understood that various changes in and modifications of the same may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention, or the scope of the claims appended hereto.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed, is

1. A button comprising a head having a shank extending rearwardly therefrom with an eye formed at the free end of the shank, front and rear material clamping members disposed in nesting relation and of substantially frusto conical formation, and a separate shank member having an eye formed in one end for loose engagement with the eye of the shank of said head and adapted to have its other end passed through said clamping members and overturned into engagement therewith with the head of said shank abutting oneof Said clamp-ing members for binding said members in clamping relation on material engaged therebetween. H

2. A button comprising a head having a shank extending rearwardly therefrom with an eye formed at thefree end thereof, a pair of nested frusto conical material clamping members each havinga central bore extending therethrough, and a separate shank member having an eye formed in one end thereof for engagement with the eye in the shank on said head, the opposite end of said shank being bentto engage a face of one of said clamping members for binding said men'ibers in clamping relation on material engaged therebetween.

3. A button-comprising a head having a shank extending rearwardly therethrough with an eye formed at the free end of the shank, front and rear material clamping members substantially frusto conical interengaging bosses formed on the forward faces of said clamping members andhaving bores extending centrally therethrough, the rear face of the rear clamping member being provided with grooves extending radially from the opening of the bores therein, and a freely movable separate shank formed to provide an eye at one end for loose engagement withthe eye of the shank of said head and parallel leg portions adapted to be passed ,thn'iugh the. bores of said clamping members and the material engaged thereof and bent into engagement with said grooves, the eye on said shank being disposedin an abutting relation to the front material securing member.

LAURA S. COONEY. 

